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On June 6, dozens of Israeli settlers entered Luban a-Sharqiya and a-Sawiya, two Palestinian villages in the Nablus district of the West Bank, both of which are under complete Israeli security control, and burned agricultural fields, a hothouse, a

SAN FRANCISCO — Every time you think there is real progress in race relations in this country something ordinary occurs that tells you otherwise. Chicago's mostly white Catholic athletic league recently refused to allow the mainly black St. Sabrina

Two of the world's largest oil multinationals have admitted that they hired a London private investigation agency with links to the British secret service to spy on the protest activities of Greenpeace, the Body Shop and other

United States negotiators have taken a hard line in defence of drug companies' patents in a special one-day meeting of the World Trade Organisation on June 20, stating that it would oppose any attempt to weaken the WTO's agreement on

A leading Timorese aid worker has branded as a "sham" an Indonesian canvassing drive which found that 98% of East Timorese refugees confined to camps in West Timor did not want to go home. Winston Neil Rondo, who works in camps in Kupang, claimed

The times are past when the US and Russian presidents greeted one another simply as "Boris" and "Bill". Boris Yeltsin is no longer in the Kremlin, and Bill Clinton has left the White House. The new administrations in both

Indonesian non-government organisations believe the June 8 raid by police on the Asia-Pacific Solidarity Conference, during which 32 foreigners were detained, was "a threat not only for [conference organiser] INCREASE but for all

BY NICK EVERETT & REBECCA MECKELBURG BANDUNG — Police have arrested six members of the radical People's Democratic Party (PRD) in West Java, in an attempt to repress the largest strike the Indonesian province has seen since the coming to power of

Environmentalists around the globe are planning to make July 11 an "international day of action" against the oil giant ExxonMobil (known in Australia as Esso), which they dub "the worst of the Greenhouse Gangsters". ExxonMobil has

For some years now, Russian presidents, Yeltsin and now Putin, have been unable to push a new labour code through the Duma, due to opposition by workers and fears within the Kremlin of a backlash. Putin failed in his last attempt

Swedish riot police have opened fire with live ammunition on anti-capitalist protesters, injuring three, one critically, in a desperate attempt to put down demonstrations in Gothenburg against a summit of European Union leaders. It

Joao Carrascalao, a cabinet member of the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor, told ABC radio on June 4 that telecommunications carrier Telstra is spying on Timorese leaders' phone calls for the Australian government. Telstra